news from Smashwords...moving to agency model with distributors

1.  Smashwords Increases Royalty Rates at Kobo, B&N and Sony

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This is big news. Effective today, we've increased royalty rates for sales
at
Kobo, B&N and Sony, and these three retailers have also stopped discounting.

What this means to you:

A:  For retailer sales from today forward, you now earn 60% of the list
price
at Kobo, B&N and Sony, in addition to the 60% you're already earning at
Apple
and Diesel.

B:  All Smashwords retailers have stopped discounting prices.  This means
you
control the price at retail.

Previously, you earned 42.5% of your retail price at B&N and Sony, and
46.75%
at Kobo.  Kobo actually completed the switch to fixed pricing about two
weeks
ago.

How'd we do this?  We renegotiated our contracts with Kobo, B&N and Sony to
move
them to what's commonly known as the "agency" model.

Learn more about this important news over at the Smashwords blog:
http://blog.smashwords.com/2010/11/smashwords-puts-authors-and-publishers.html
and find a summary of the details in your Dashboard's Channel Manager at
https://www.smashwords.com/dashboard/channelManager

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